----- Original Message -----
From: Dmitri
Nabokov
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: RE : Eco & Lolita spoof
Dear
Don (it might be fun to post this exchange),
The
point of my quiz-like question to you is that the original title of Eco's
short takeoff was "Nonita", a play on the Italian word "nonna" ,
or "grandma". The Englishing of the title into "Granita", with the intended
echo of "Granny" but, in Italian especially, an interference of
"granite" and a dash of "grenadine", is not felicitous. The Eco/Fulmerford link,
by the way, is canceled and no longer a valid echo.
Best,
DN
Dmitri,
Here is the reference to the English version.
The book, a collection of essays, probably has a different title in the
Italian original. Best, Don
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